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OF ..ys. r LOWER-CANAI>A^ \ ..i\ > ^'^ WITH HIS EXCELLENCY'S ANSWERS, s > " ^"> ■■> s ^ 1 / f^ ft. /x. t #«-^ -tic A * / .>^ ^- r^, , , . e r -.. /^^-< ^^- *^<:- <•<-<• ■^- — - ■< liW To Ills Excellency the Right Honorable George, Earl of Dalhousif Baron Dal- housie of Dalliousie Castle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, &c. &,c. &c. Mat it please Your Excellency, I We the subscribers, His Majesty's dutiful and loyai sub- ' jccts, Inhabitants of the City and District of Montreal, in I ; tlie Province of Lower Canada, beg leave most respectfully . 1| to approach your Excellency upon the occasion of the late • if Prorogation of the Provincial Assembly. The course of previous measures long and systematically ; 1; pursued by our Provincial House of Assembly, as well in re- . | ,;! gard to the financial as other momentous questions, had » ? j often been such as to produce in us, feelings of deep and , i :; painful solicitude. To the experience of immediate incon- *;^' veniences were added more gloomy forebodings of future ,; evils. yh We have seen the Revenue of our sister Province of Up- per Canada, unjustly withheld until it became necessary to fe-establish her rights, by the interposition of the Imperial Parliament. We have seen a system of temporary laws conti- nually expiring, or ro(piiriiig constant renewal, almost uni- versally substituted in the stead of permanent legislation j as if to reduce all thing--, to which other countries have deemed it requisite to give stability, into precarious depen- dence U|Mm the willolan elective body, which has for years been attempting tousur[? the pouM rs of the Executive, and encroach upon the Prerogatives of the Crown. We have seen the right of having representatives in our Legislatures, which is fiit present confined to the French seigniories, refus- ed to the English portion of Lower Canada, namely, the Townships, unless upon terms which would have rendered its accordance a delusion, and a mockery. We have seen Offices of Registry, such as exist in all English Colonies, and arc indispensable to the security of titles to j roperty in A2 ( 1 '■.■\' li I) ■i i the English portion of the Province, refused to the reiterated prayers of its inhabitants, hotwitlistanding the recommenda-. tion of the government in its favor, under this pretext amongst others, that such Registries are incompatible with French and feudal Laws, and this notwithstanding the bene- ficence of the Imperial Parliament, which has enacted that these French Laws shall not operate upon lands under En- glish tenures. We have even seen measures adopted bv the House of Assembly to obtain the repeal of this beneficent Act of the Imperial Parliament, whereby the unrepresented English Inhabitants of the Townships would be placed in a still more calamitous situation than at present ; and we can- not but perceive that the scope and tendency of the course pursued by the Assembly of Lower Canada must render this extensive Province, chiefly waste and unsettled at present, unfit for the object which the Mother Country must have most at heart, namely, that it should afford the means of advantageous settlement to British Emigrants, and constitute an asylum and a home for her surplus population. But although we had observed with melancholy presenti- ments the tendency of the course adopted, which, from the defective state of our representation, derived only from the Seigniories, was unalterable, except by some interposition of the Parent Country, (such as occurred to repress the in- justice attempted towards Upper Canada, we were neverthe- less not prepared for so sudden an exhibition of the spirit of domination, so haughty a disregard of the Prerogatives of the Crown, and so wanton a Violation of the Constitution under which alone they exist, as has been manifested by the Asr sembly immediately before the recent Prorogation. We feel deeply that it has been to the power and Preroga- tives of the Crown that, under Providence, we must chiefly ascribe the preservation of those characteristics by which this Provin( e can be distinguished as an English Colony. We feel these Prerogatives and power, necessary to good Government throughout the British dominions, must be, to us in this Province more essential, as constituting our chief refuge in danger, our strong tower of defence against feudal ascendancy, and our sole reliance against anarchy and con- fusion. For your Excellency's measures and determination to up- hold these just and necessary Prerogatives, in their due and legal efficiency, we beg leave gratefully to express oiir heartfelt thanks. We cannot doubt that these measures will meet the decided approbation of our beloved and roost Gra- cious Sovereign, to whom, and to the Parent Country we can alone look, under Providence, for the future establishment of a srate of things such as may render this Province a se- cure and desirable asylum for our fellow subjects from Britain. While we thus gratefully acknowledge your Excellency's sense of duty in supporting the most essential Prerogatives of the Crown, and your unabated zeal for the welfare and improvement of the Country, amidst unhappy divisions, cal- culated to paralyze your laudable efforts, and while we also recollect the blessings experienced by the Sister Province of Nova'Scotia under your Administration, we cherish the hope that the recent proceedings of the House of Assembly may in- duce His Majesty's Government to take our situation into their serious consideration, with the view of speedly repair- ing the defects and correcting the errors which past expe- rience, and the recent assumptions of the Assembly have tended to expose. And we also fervently cherish the hope that the firmness and energy which have marked your Lordship's conduct on this and other important occasions, wiii not be relaxed in the present arduous circumstances of your Administration, which we trust will be long, and distin- guished by obtaining an effectual remedy to our grievances. Amidst these hopes, derived from your character and con- duct, we feel assured that your Excellency will experience the noblest of all rewards, not only in the approbation of our Gracious and beloved Sovereign, but in the consciousness of having discharged the duties of your exalted station, for the welfare and prosperity of His Majesty's faithful subjects, [Signed by upwards of 7000 persons.] ANSWER. Gbntlemek, The circumstances which called for the late sudden proro- gation of the Provincial Parliament, were truly such as might well produce feelings of deep and painful solicitude in the minds of all the respectable classes of society. In this Ad- dress you have traced most justly the mischievous tendency 5! a- -V. Ui ^1 hf n- Mi li ; ofllie meaflures purBued for years pa»t in the Provincial IIoum of i^dsembly ; although the cQVct of these meuBures has been long felt in the total stop put to the progress of public im- provement, I look upon that as nothing wli^n compared wiiU the recent more during attempt to deny the Ri.ersonaHy lay your Address at His Majesty's feet, so sincerely do I desire to add to it the utmost weight which my station amongst you might give to it ; nothing that I can urge, however, shall be wanting to recommend the sentiments and opinions expressed in it to the immediate and favorable consideration of His Majesty's Secretary of Slate. I thank you, genllemen,for the gratifying approbation which yon express of my own conduct in the recent proceedings. My duty is very plain, and I beg you to be assured, that it shall be my constant study so to act that while 1 firmly main- lain the Prerogative of the Crown, I shall always, as faith- fully, guard tiie Rights of the People. al T1oM<)« liaB been ublic iin> red with ;rogalive, l-S but u y known, t Pari i a- ies, it has iabed. issernbly ; factious lenc and ^aru who uitution. with no id at this the past modera- 'ing from /ernment 311 raging and that the res- al to 11 is 'pair the lay your to add u might wanting ed in it lajesiy's m which eedings, that it ly main> IS faith- To His Excellency the Right Ilonorabfe George Earl Dalhousie, Baron Dalhou- sie of Dalhousie Castle, Koiglit Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower and U[)per Canada, &c. &c. &c. May it please your Excellency, We his Majesty's dutiful and loyal subject*, Inhabitants of the City and Vicinity of Quebec, beg leave most respect- fully to approach your Excellency for the purpose of expres- sing the enti- "latisfaction M'e have derived from the firm and dignified x. ,'nduct evinced by your Excellency, on the recent meeting of the Legislature of this Province, in the judicious exercise of the Royal Prerogative, by the disal- lowance of the Speaker, chosen by the House of Assembly, and In the Prorogation of the House on their subsequent proceedings. The Prerogative of His Majesty, to disallow the Election of a Speaker of the House, we maintain to be incontesti- ble and co-ordinate with the right of approval of that choice. We deeply regret in common with other of His Majesty' subjects, solicitous for the welfare, peace and Constitutional Government of this part of His Majesty's Dominions, that a sufficient regard for established authority and for the Public Interest was not found in the Majority of the House of Assembly to have restrained them from their pertinacious perseverance in the Election of the person disallowed by your Lordship: and while we view the interruption of Public Business by the Prorogation of the Legislature as a most serious evil to the Province, we are at the same time fully satisfied that under the circumstances, there was no alternative left for your Lordship, on this uncommon and trying occasion. The occurrences which have rendered the Prorogation unavoidable, as well as the frequent difficulties which have Mrlsen in the Provincial Legislature for some years past, we feel to be most injurious to the happiness and welfare of the Province; and having arrived at this crisis, may we venture humbly to express our hope that your Excellency will make such representations to His Majesty's Government as will call for their immediate enquiry, in order to apply a remedy to the existing evil, that we may enjoy in tranquillity, the inestimable blessings and advantages of our connection with the Mother Country, and of our happy Constitution ? We cannot conclude this expression of our sentiments, without assuring your Excellency of our unalterable deter- mination to afford your Excellency all the support in our power, in maintaining His Majesty's Prerogative and the Ck»n8titution of this Province, as by Ijaw established. [Signed by upwards of 2,700 persons.] ANSWER. Gentlemen, While 1 have the happiness to receive Addr&ases from al- most all parts of the Province, in approbation of my conduct in the late sudden Prorogation of th? Provincial Parliament, there is none which can afford me greater satisfaction than this Address from the Inhabitants of the Cty and vicinity of Quebec. .^ Living in the midst of them, and observed by them more doselyin all the measures of the Administration of Govern- ment, I feel that they are perhaps better qualified than others to judge of the circumstances under which I have acted ; and I am, therefore, the more gratified by this expression of their approbation. I entirely agree with you that at the crisis to which the existence of the Constitutional Government has been brought, some immediate and effectual remedy is called for ; and I shall not fail to make the most earnest representa- tions to His Majesty's Government ; in which I shall feel myself strongly supported by this Address from the City of Quebec. 1 accept with great satis&ction the promises of His Majesty's Governmenr which you have now ouereu ; a itiU confidently look forward to tiwt coming day, when all support to offered ; I I 1 'i \ I part, we u'e of the e venture vill make It as will a remedy llity, the mnection ution } atimentfl, )le deter- t in our and the led. from al- conduct rliament, ion than cinity of !m more Govern- in others ed; and of their crisis to nent has is called resenta- hall feel City of pport to ered; I hen all hearts in this Province will loyally unite in protecting ilie Con- stitution, and resisting the encroachments of a Faction, which, though small in number, has net itfleU up as the voice of the whole country. The people of the Province have been deceived and misled ; btit trutii will prevail, and they will at last see the real cause from whence so much ditKculty and so much mischief has arisen. (Signed) DALHOUSIE. To His Excellency, George Earl of Dal- HousiE, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military order of the Bath, Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and their several dependencies, Vice Admiral of the same, General and Commander in Chief of all his Majesty's Forces in the Pro- vinces of Lower and tipper Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and their several dependencies : *^ May it pleask voua Excellency, We, His Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the In- habitants of Three Rivers, deeming it necessary, \n tlie pre- sent critical conjuncture, to avail ourselves of the right of Britons to meet and consult together when our dearest rights and most valuable privileges are menaced, beg permission to approach your Excellency with the result of our delibe- rations, in the firm but respectful expectation, that, should your Excellency consider the genuine unprejudiced senti- ments of 80 large a portion of His Majesty's faithful subjects woriy of attention, you will be pleased to lay them before " ml mM 10 the Imperial Government of our beloved Sovereign ; being, in our humble opinion, the only source whence we can now expect relief from the many public evils of which we com- plain, and under which we have too long been labouring. Should your Excellency condescend to peruse the Resolu- tions which we have now the honor of presenting, and which were carried by the acclamations of one of the most nume- rous public meetings Ihat ever took place in our part of the Province, it will be found that our grounds of complaint, against the populai' branch of the Provincial Legislature, are no less weighty than numerous. We complain, gene- rally, that that body have assumed and arrogated to them- selves powers which were neither conferred, nor intended to be conferred upon them by the Constitution, and which, if admitted, would inevitably destroy the whole fabrick of our fjcial compact. We complain, particularly that they have refused to co-operate with the other branches of the Legislature in granting to His Majesty's subjects in this Province, that security of property which is so pre-eminently enjoyed in every other part of the empire ; that they have refused to enfranchise nfty thousand of His Majesty s loyal subjects in the Townships, entitled to all the privileges of Britith subjects ; that they have not only refused to grant supplies in aid of the funds at the disposal of His Majesty for defraying the cxpences of the Civil Administration of Justice and of the support of the Civil Government in this Province, but have arrogated to themselves the sole right of disposing of" and appropriating those funds, though secured to His Majesty by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, viz. the 14th George III. chapter 88.; that it is principally owing to their groundless pretensions and unparallelled usurpa- tions on this subject, the civil miseries of this Province are mainly to be attiibuted ; and that unless speedily checked by the firm arm of the supreme authority of the Mother Country, we ni;iy yet live to record and to lament transac- tions the most dangerous to the welfare of our Civil Govern- ment and society, and scenes the most disgraceful to virtu- ous and loyal citizens. We also complain, that they have refused to admit your Excelloiicy's negative upon their choice of Speaker, and jjersisted in declaring that choice absolute without the approbation of your Excellency ; thus denying an undoubted Prerogative of the Crown and an inherent principle of the Constitution; and that their unl- m u ^i I ; being, can now we com- ibouring. e Resolu- nd which )St nume- art of the jmpJaint, B^islature, in, gene- to them- intended id which, abrick of :hat they es of the s in this minently lev have t/s loyal '^i leges of to grant Majesty ration of It in this ! right of 1 secured ent, viz. ly owing usurpa- ince are checked Mother transae- Govern- virtu- ley have ►n their ; choice y; thus and an 3ir unir form disregard and contempt of your Excellency's recom- mendations, even when accompanied by instructions and despatches from His Majesty's Paternal Government, betray a spirit no less destructive of the supremacy of the Mother Country, than hurtful and prejudicial to the true interests of His Majesty's loyal subjects in this Province. We com-,, plain, moreover, that a leading and influential party amongst them, untrue to their duty as representatives of a free peo- ple, and disregarding that generous spirit of conciliation which should ever characterize the people of this Province, and permanently unite them in one bond of national feeling and sentiment, avail themselves of every means and opportu- nity to institute civil and religious distinctions for purposes as unworthy of true patriotism as detrimental to the happiness and prosperity of this part of the British Empire. These, may it please your Excellency, are our complaints. They might have been magnified and extended ; but no courage can gainsay, no ingenuity can controvert them. If we have spoken boldly, we have also spoken truly ; and truth, my Lord, is the best Counsellur in times of public danger, and the best safeguard of a free people, even when misrule stalks through the country. But in availing ourselves of our right to complain, we must not forget that there are other duties equally incumbent upon us. ii is therefore, with the most uk^.feigned and heartfelt gratitude that we beg permission to offer lo your Excellency the sincere tribute of our thanks for having on stjmany im- portant occasions maintained the honor and dignity of the exalted siuiation which you fill with such general approba- tion; and, in particular, for having, with a firmness peculiar to your rank and station, shielded our Constitution from some of the most dariui; attacks that were ever contemplated by any legislative body, either metropolitan or provincial; for having withstood encroachments of the popular branch of the Legislature of this Province no less derogatory to the established prerogatives of the Crown, than subversive of that system of Government which has exalted us in freedom and renown above every other nation ; and thus, -n a manner, standing between us and anarchy the most alarming. To recapitulate, indeed, the many instances of your Excellency's Constitutional conduct both as an Executive Magistrate and Legislative Governor which this Province has witnessed, would be to detail every act of your administration since the era of B« i tl 12 your Excellency's arrival amongst us. But into such a detail, however agreeable to our sentiments and pleasing to our ftel- ings we shall not at present enter : satisfying ourselves with a grateful remembrance of them, and a confident hope that the time is far distant when we shall be deprived of services 80 well calculated tc promote the general prosperity of the Province, and, if that were possible, axalt our veneration for the justice, equity and generosity of His Majesty's Pfttemal Government. Again we beg leave to thank — sincerely to thank your Ex- cellency for all you have done towards the preservation of our dearest and mos. valuable rights, and to assure you, that the accomplishment of our humble desires on the present occasion, will be u lasting memorial no less of our affection for a Sove- reign and Government ever great, liberal, just, and benefi- cient, than of those obligations under which your Excellen- cy's public and private virtues have so peculiarly placed us. [Signed by upwards of 800] ANSWER. Gentlemen, I have perused with great attention the Resolutions of the Public Meeting at Three-Rivers, and I need not say that I rec^ve with the greatest satisfaction, the Address founded upon them. — I acknowit Jge that you have spoken in them the language of truth, with the boldness which becomes Bri- tish Subjects when claiming their rights* A detail of the occurrences which have led to this manly and loyal appeal to His Majesty's Government, has been al- ready transmitted to His Majesty's Secretary of State ; and the sentiments I have expressed will be impressively urged by the support which your Address and Resolutions will give to them. I am highly gratified by the assurance in this Address that my general conduct in the administration of the Govern- ment has merited so much public approbation in the District ofThrec-Rivers. I assumed the Government more than seven years ago, in the most anxious desire to conciliate all differences, and work w, ft detail, our ftel- ▼68 with ope that f services ty of the ration for Fatemal your Ex- on of our , that the occasion, r a Sove- d benefi- Bxcellen- ced us. IS of the ly that I founded them Bri- in Hies IS manly been al- ite ; and ir^ed by will give ress that Govern- I District ago, in nd work 13 sincerely for the public ffood. — That desire has ever remained undiminished : But I nave been forced to defend the plain- est principles of the Constitution, and the most undoubted prerogatives of the Grown, against encroachments. — You may oe assured that I shall continue to do so, confident of the ultimate support of all His Majesty's faithful and loyal sub- jects in this Province ; and I only do an act of justice when I add, that in that class I comprehend a very large proportion of the people which has submitted to be blinded and misled. (Signed) DALHOUSIB. To His Excellency George, Earl of Dalhousie, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and over the Pro- vinces of Lower Canada, Upper Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, &c. &c. &c. Mat it please your Excellency, We the Loval Inhabitants of the Royal Borough of Wil- liam Henry and its vicinity, viewing witli entire approbation the measures of your Lordship's administration as calculated to promote the honor and interests of the British Empire generally, and of His Majesty's North American Colonies par- ticularly, — beaf leave to approach your Lordship with this ex- pression of our firm attachment to those measures, and our determination to stand by and support your Lordship in main- taining the just prerogative of the British Crown and the rights of His Majesty's subjects, which we firmly believe to be the sole objects of your Excellency's administration. [Signed by 97] ANSWER. Ma. Stuart, Do me the favor to express to the Inhabitants of the Royal Borough of William Henry, and of its vicinity, the pleasure I have felt in receiving the Address you have pre- If 14 lented to me in their name — I trust that the Inhabitants of William Hemy will be always assured, that notwithatai.ding the clamour, or abuse of faction, I shall never shrink from the faithful discharge of my duty, and thereby lay a claim 40 the approbation of every reasonable and loyal man in the Pro- ▼mce. S§ To His Excellency George, Earl of Dal- HousiE, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Cap- tain General and Governor in Chief, in and over the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada^ &c. &c. &c. May it please your Excellency. We, the subscribers, His Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Inhabitants of New Glasgow and its vicinity, County of Effingham, District of Montreal, beg leave to ap- proach ' ou with the warmest sentiments of respect, appreci- ating ' :e mildness and equity of your Excellency's adminis- tration; the progressive improvement of this Province under your fostering hand, and the liberal system of Policy your Excellency i& always disposed to pursue. We regret and decidedly condemn the conduct of a faction in this Province whose tenets have a direct tendency to anni- hilate the Prerogatives of the Crown, who are deficient in the duty and respect they owe to your Excellency as invested with the Government of this Provinr:e, and who zealously seem oiiposed to every thing tending to enlighten and improve the Country, We applaud the uncompromising firmness and fidelity manifested by your Excellency in withstanding the machinations of these misguided men, and while we contem- plate that some decisive measure will be adopted by the Im- perial Government efiectually to put a stop to these dissen- tions, we rest confident that it will be tempered with that moderation and justice that will not punish the innocent for, nor with the guilty. fl 15 We only beg leave to add that we are constrained by a sense of duty to come forward at this conjuncture to avow our de- termined resolution to support your Excellency in the exer- cise of Loyalty to our King, faithful adherence to the British Constitution, and the maintenance of public tranquility. [Signed by 198.] New Glasgow, 11th December 1837. To His Excellency George Earl of Dalhousie, Knight Grand Gross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provin- ces of Lower Canada, Upper Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, &c. &c. &c. May it plbase your Excellency, We the undersigned, His Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, inhabitants of the County of Efliiigham, beg leave to approach your Excellency, to express our entire respect fur your Excellency's public and private character and our approbation of your Excellency's measures in the administra- tion of the Government of this Province. Not yielding to the inhabitants of any part of the British Empire, in our attachment to those principles of our glori- ous constitution which are peculiarly calculated to secure the rights and liberties of the people, we feel it equally our duty to stand forward when occasion shall require in defence of the just prerogatives of the Crown ; being fully persuaded that these rightly understood, are among the best of safeguards of the Constitution. We have theretbre witnessed with great anxiety and regret the dlBicullies which have so long existed in this Province, even beture your Excellency's administra- tion, amongst the Legislative bodies upon tinancial matters, and we have deeply d^plort'd the obsiinacy and violence with which your Excellency's efforts for the adjustment of these difficulties have in the Assembly been entirely defeated. 16 We acknowledge with gretitude the attention which your Excellency has eter manifested to the best interests and per- manent improvement of the Country ; and we deeply lament that your Excellency's Tarious and repeated recommendations to the Provincial Legislature for the oenefit of the Province, for the improvemen*n of its institutions, and development of its resources, have been disregarded in the Assembly, or have been rendered unavailing by the baneful predominance of a factious party grasping at unconstitutional power. We have viewed with encreasing concern and alarm the persevering efforts of that party to sow discontent among the population of the Province, naturally, quiet, loyal, and well disposed ; and to bring His Majesty's Elecutive Government into discredit and contempt amon^r them by the sedulous exer- cise of all the arts of misrepresentation and abuse ; But we were not prepared for the crisis which has now arrived ; when by the influence of that party a majority has been found in the Assembly to deny and resist, as mr as in them lay, one of the most ancient and undoubted prerogatives of the Crown, in the confirmation or rejection of^ the Speaker chosen by the Commons. We are convinced that in the exercise of that high prerogative in this instance your Excell ncy has been actuated by the strongest considerations of expediency and necessity, and by a sense of duty to our Gracious Sovereign, and to the Country ; and while we lament that the Assembly have, by their denial of the constitutional power vested in the Crown, at once arrested the course of public business in the Legislature, and violated in an important point that law and constitution under which they exist, it is to us a gratifying and consolatory reflection that the existing and lawful powers of Government will still continue to be wielded by your Excel- lency with a firm and steady hand, unmoved by the arts of the designing or the violence of the more open enemies of good order; and we beg leave to tender to your Excellency the assurance of our deep respect and of our unqualified appro- bation and support in your determination to mai.itain the just authority of the Crown, and to exercise it for the welfare and happiness of the people. [Signed by 54.] Terrebonne, 17ih December 1827. lich your and per* \j lament endations Province, >pment of , or have ance of a larm the mong the and well vernment ous exer- i But we id ; when i found in ly, one of -'lown, in en by the e of that has been ency and uvereign, Assembly ted in the ess in the t law and fying and powers of ur Excel- irts of the ) of good ilency the ;d appro- itain the le welfare ANSWEIl. Caitle of St. Lewis, Quebec, 83d December, 1827. Sifi, I am commanded by His Excellency the Governor in Chief, to request that you will convey to the Inhabitants of the settlement of New-Glasgow and the vicinity, and those also in your own Immediate neighbourhood. His Excellency's best thanks for the two addresses signed by them respeciively, which he has received through your hands. His Excellency is happy to find, that the population in the new and distant settlements, are alive to the discussions of public concerns, interesting to them as affecting the improve- ment of the Province and the government of it. It is grati- fying to him to learn, that they place their confidence in His Majesty's Representative in the Province, and that they justly appreciate the value of that constitution under which they live in peace and safety, ; His Excellency receives their expressions of approbation of his conduct with lively satisfaction, and he will not fail to transmit these addresses to His Majesty's Government as con- taining the sentiments of loyal, peaceful and happy subjects of His Alajesty in this Province. I have the honor to be. Sir, ^.^ ,, , % Your moat obdt. servt. ;. - X (Signed) A. W. COCHRAN, Secretary. The Hon. R. McKenzie^ Esquire. ;t I'**. H' Rift' I t| To His Excellency the Right Honorable George Earl of Dalhousie, Baron Dalhousie of Dal- housie Castle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, &c. &c. &c. w.s ! May it please Youn Excellency, Wc, the Subscribers, Seigneurs, Magistrates, Militia Offi- cers and other loyal eubjects, Inhabitants of the Seigniory of Chambly, Parish of St. Luc and vicinity, in the Province of Lower Canada, beg leave most respectfully to approach your Excellency upon the occasion of the late Prorogation of the Provincial Assembly. The course of measures pursued for some time past by our Provincial House of Assembly, as well in regard to Financial as other momentous questions, has been such as to produce in us feelings of deep and painful solicitude. We have seen the Revenue of our Sister Province of Upper Canada unjustly withheld, until it became necessary to re- estubli.sh her rights b^ the interposition of the Imperial Par- liament. We have seen a system of temporary Laws continually ex- piring, or requiring constant renewal, almost universally sub- stituted in the stead ot permanent legislation, as if to reduce all things to which other countries have deemed it requisite to give stability, into precarious dependance upon the will of an Elective Body, which has been attempting to usurp the pow- ers of the Executive and encroach upon tlie Prerogatives of the Crowo. We have seen Offices of Registry, such as exist in all Eng- lish Colonies, and are indcspensable to the security of Titles of Property in this Province, refuped to the reiterated pray- ers of its inhabitants, notwitlistanding the recommendation of Government in its favor, and we (irmly believ^, that if the present pernicious system of the House of Assembly should be persevered in, that this extensive Province, chiefly waste MBg . jeorge fDaU of the J Bath, [lief in Upper lia Offi- ;niory of ?ince of ch your n of the t by our inancial produce r Upper ry to re- ial Par- lally ex- illy sub- reduce uisile to lU of an lie pow- tives of dl Eng- ^ Titles ;d pray- ndation at if the f should y waste and unsettled at present will be rendered unfit for the object which the Mother ('ountry muni have ino3t at heart, namely, that it should afford the means of advantageous settlement to British Emigrants, and constitute an asylum and a home for her surplus population. Lastly— We have been overwhelmed with astonishment at the sudden exhibition of a spirit of domiitalion, a haughty disregard of the Prerogatives of the Crown, and a wanton violation of the Constiuilion under which alone th>^y exist, which has been manifested by the Provinciaf House of Assem- bly immediately before the recent Prorogation. We feel deeply that it has been to the power and Preroga- tives of the Crown that under Providence we most chiefly as cribe the preservation of those characteristics by which this Province can be distinguished as an English Colony. — For your Excellency's measures and determination to uphold these just and necessary Prerogatives in their due and legal eflici- ency, we beg leave grateTully to express our heartfelt thanks. — We cannot donbt that these measures will meet the decided approbation of our beloved and roost gracious Sovereign, fo whom we can alone look for the future e»tablishment of a state of things such as may render this Province a secure and desirable asylum for our fellow subjects from Britain. — While we thus gratefully acknowledge your Excellency's sense of duty in supporting the most essential Prerogatives of the Crown, and your unabated zeal for the welfare and improve- ment of the Country, we cherish the hope that the recent proceedings of the House of Assembly may induce His Ma- jesty's Government to take our situation into their serious con- sideration, with a view of speedily repairing (he defects and correcting the errors which past experience and the recent assumptions of the Assembly have tended to expose, and we also fervently cherish the hope that the firmness and energy which have marked your Lordship's conduct on this and other important occasions, will not be relaxed in the present ardu- ous circumstances of your Administration, which we trust will he long, and distinguished by obtaining an etfectual remedy to our grievances. ,,,,,^ ^ Amid these hopes, derived from your character and conduct, we feel assured that your Excellency will experience the noblest of all rewards, not only in the approbation of Our C2 J I ( I t ■» i 80 Gracious and Beloved Sovereign, but in the contcioutneM of having discharged the duties of your exalted station, for the welfare end prosperity of His Majesty's faithful subjecti. [Signed by about 750 persons.] To His Excellency the Right Honorable George Earl of Dalhousie, Baron Dal- housie of Dalhousie Castle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and Govemor- in-Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower- Canada, Upper-Canada^ &c. &c. &c. May it please tour Excellenct, We, His Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects residing in the Parish of Laprairie and vicinity, most respectfully embrace the present period to express our cfevoted attachment to the Gov- ernment, under Avhich we have the happiness to live, and also our high sense of Your Excellency's dignified conduct in the maintenance of the Prerogative nf the Crown, by the late Prorogation of our Provincial Parliament, as well as our entire approbation of Your Administration throughout. '^ ' We trust that the period is near at hand when the misun- derstandings which have in a great degree interfered with the prosperity and improvement ofthis country, will be completely removed, — That Your Excellency may long remain with us in your present elevated station, and have the satisfaction of observing the fruits of your judicious measures, is our most ardent wish. [Signed by 80 persons.] ANSWER. E. Henrt, Esqr. 5tli January, ]8S8. Sir, — I am directed by His Excellency the Governor in Chief to acknowledge the receipt of the Address from the In- ! 1 tl habiunts of Laprairie, which you forwarded with your letter of 27th December, and Hia Excellency desires tne to express to yon, and through you to the subscribeis to the Address, his best thanks for this very grateful expression of their approba- tion of his conduct in the Administration of the Government, and particularly in the recent Prorogation of the Assembly. 1 have &c. A. W. COCHRAN. To His Excellency the Right Honorable George, Earl of Dalhousie, Baron Dalhousie of Dal- housie Castle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, &c. &c. &c. Mat it please your Excellency, We, His Majesty's loyal and faithful subjects, residing in the Parish of St. Philippe and its vicinity (County of Hunt- ingdon, Lower-Canada) beg leave most respectfully to Ad- dress Your Excellency on the late Prorogation of the Provincial Assembly. It has been painful for us to observe, for some time past, the conduct of the majority of that House, in their total want of regard for the Prerogatives of the Crown, and the true interests of the Province, which has been manifest in their refusal of salutary Laws which have often been recom- mended and solicited by Your [Excellency, and by Petitions from the enlightened part of the community — that there has been a manifest trifling, and passing over M'ith indiflerence, matters of importance, and thereby iression after Session passes over withotit any thing essential being done for the good of the Province, and that the general tendency of their conduct has been to misrepresent measure:*, thereby endeavouring to poison the minds of the public. We would further state that we believe that it is to the influence and wise measures ofYour Excellency we are indebted for those privileges we enjoy as British subjects ; we would, therefore, beg leave to assure Your Excellency that the measures you haye adopted in the 22 Prorog|ilion of the House of Assembly and other parts of your Administration — meet our unaualiOed approbation, (and fur which we return our grateful thanks) and we doubt not but they will meet the approbation of His Majesty, and the Got- ernment under which we have the happiness to live. We would, therefore, entreat Your Excellency to use your in- fluence with Hia Majesty and those in authority to take our situation into consideration, and erant us that relief and secu- rity, and place us in that state of independence and equality, which is our right as British subjects, and make this country, which we must now call our home, a secure and happy Asylum for us and our posterity, which in the present state of our Representation we do not enjoy. w | ;»]i . ,,'^ That it may please His Majesty, long to continue Your Excellency in your elevated situation, and that you may long live to see effects of your wise and judicious administration, in the prosperity and welfare of the Country over which you preside, is our fervent prayer. ■11 [Signed by 85 persons.] .t/j .jiSM wiii'..) .w avsu./ it.i^:^^l'i 11 '{ hil 'f ANSWER. L. KiDD, Esq. Laprairie. 31st December, I8S7. Sir, — Inm commanded by His Excellency the Governor in Chief to acknowledge the receipt of the Address of a number of the Inhabitants of S(. Philippe to His Excellency, which accompanied your letter of 25ih instant, and I am to convey to them through you, the assurance that His Excellency has already submitted to His Majesty's Government the heavy and well grounded complaints of His Majesty's loyal subjects in various parts of this Province, who suffer from the conse- quences of the divisions which prevail in the Legislature, more particularly at the present moment, when such daring encroachments have been attempted upon the well established Prerogative llights of the Crown. His Excellency feels it his duty to guard the Constitution and Government of this Pro- vince from all such attempts, and in doing so his best exer- tions shall not be wanting to obtain an equal and full enjoy- ment of that admirable Constitution for all classes of the people in every part of the Province. ._, ^. .^ . 1 have, &c. A. W. COCHRAN. ^,> :i )f your »na foi- not but e GoT- B. We rour in- ike our (1 secu- ^uality, ountry, Asylum e of our e Your ay long itraiion, lich you It r, 1827. ernor in number , which convey incy has >avy and )ject8 in conse- islatuie, daring abli&hed Is it his his Fro- st exer- 1 enjoy- Bs of the RAN. 23 To His Excellency the Right Honorable George Earl of Dalhousie, Baron Dal- housie of Dalhousie Castle, Knight, Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, &c. &c. &c. May it please Youh Excellency, We the undersigned Inhabitants of Drummondville and of the adjoining settlements, have observed with unfeigned regret, the unconstitutional attempts of a Faction, to thwart Your Kxceilency, in your endeavors to promote the advancement of this Province. We therefore feel called upon to approach Your Excellency for the purpose of tendering our humble assurances of our unabated and unshaken loyalty, and to declare our attachment to Your Excellency's Aihninistration, which has ever been marked for its wisdom ; and we also beg leave to express our admiration of Your Excellency's firmness on every occasion, particularly in repelling the recent during Httempt of the Representative Branch of the Government to deny the uiuloubied Prerogative of onr beloved Sovereign, Ilecognizing, with gratitude, in Your Excellency, the able and faithful guardian of our rights as British subjects, and humbly hoping that the present exprei^sion of men of tried loyalty may not be deemed untimely, nor be unwelcome to Your Excel- lency, we subscribe ourselves. Your Excellency's faithful, dutiful and loyal servants. Drummondville, 5th Jany. 1828. '*.' i ,,ut'j [Signed by nearly two hundred respectable inhabitants.] .- -Ll- ' ■1' ;•! } .'■ „,,:. ANSWER. . ^ .:.. Gentlemen, 4v;';ii't .i; .■•: •■ •■■■■'a •>.■ j*'--- '■■ -*■ ^ ■ - I am commanded by His Excellency the Governor in Chie^ to acknowledge the receipt of the Address from the Inhabitants of Drummondville and its vicinity, which you lately transmit- ted to be laid before His Excellency, and I am to convey to II 24 yoD, and to request that you Mrill express to the Itiliabitanta who have eigncxl this Address with you, His Excellency's thanks for the sentiments it contains, assuring them that His Excellency well knows the character of loyalty and industry that belongs to the young settlement at Drummondville. His Excellency the more particularly regrets the present state of things with reference to that part of the Province, as it is in such young and rising settlements that the aid of the Proviocial Government is most especially wanted^ and would be most immediately felt. 1 have the honour to be, Gentlemeii, Your most obedient humble Servant, I ^ A. W. COCHAAN, Secy. i-* - n Major Ployardt and James Millar, Esq. To His Excellency the Right Honorable George, Earl of Dalhousie, Baron Dal- housie of Dalhousie Castle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, S^c. S^c. ^c. May it plbasr your Excellency, We the Subscribers, His Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects, inhabitants of the Parish of Berthier, and County of Warwick, beg leave to approach Your Excellency at this crisis of the public affairs of the Province, with sentiments of dutiful respect and attachment to His Majesty's Person, and also with deep and sincere gratitude for the benefits we have received from his paternal, liberal and enlightened government. We would also beg leave to approach Your Excellency with feelings of respect for those puUic and private virtues which labitanis lellency's that His industry le. His state of IS it is in roviocial be most ant. Secy, orable n Dai- Grand Order ►vemor Lower nd loyal bounty of his crisis >f dutiful Uso with received t. ncy with » which have shone so conftpicnous in Your Excellency's conduct during the penoJ you have presided over this important portion of His Majesty's Dominions ; and to assure Your Excellency that we have ever considered those virtues a sure pledge of your ardent and unremitted teal to promote and establish the prosperity of this Province.. We would likewise beg leave io state to Your Excellency, that if the many advantages that ought to have accrued to this Province, from the wisdom of Your Excellency's Administra- tion, have not been realised, it may be attributed to the unwar- rantable pretensionsof our House of Assembly and their adhe- rence to a line of conduct opposed to the Prerogative of the Crown and to the character and dignity of their own body. And lastly, we would beg leave to submit toYourExcellency that, enjoying as we do the protection of a Constitution that forbids " us to believe that any political evil, can exist without *' a rem ly," although we must confess that the conduct of the House of Assembly has excited in us feelings of deep regret and solicitude; yet at the same time, having full confidence in the wisdom and prudence of the parent country, and also in Your Excellency's firm and temperate measures on this trying occasion, we feel persuaded that such arrangements will be pursued as efTectually to preclude the possibility of a renewal of a similar state of things, and we fervently hope that it is reserved for Your Excellency to see this Province in the full enjoyment of the blessiugs of unanimity and prosperity, which have been so long the object of Your Excellency s unremitted exertions to promote. [Signed by near 800 persons.] Berthier, 16th January, 1828. ANSWER. Mr. ANTROBlfS, I must request of you to convey to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Bcrthiir and County of Warwick who have put their Signatures tc thi^ ^loyal Address, my thanks and earnest acknowledgements for tlie approbation they have expressed of royAdminiBtration of the Government of this Province. D 26 They do me justice in believing that the object of my anxious wishes has been to promote the public welfare and prosperity ; to conciliate diflferences, and restore unanimity disturbed by a few Factious men, easily found in all countries. I have had great satisfaction in seeing by the language of this Address, as well as of many others recently received, that the conduct of these Factious leaders is generally condemned and reprobated by every Loyal and respectable man in Canada. I must further request you to assure the County of Warwick, that I shall spare no exertions and influence in my power, tu impress Uf>Dn His Majesty's Ministers the call made by these Addresses for effectual and immediate measures to remedy the existing evils. fi III (Signed) DALIIOUSIE. anxious osperity ; bed by a iguage of ved, that ndemned Canada. Warwick, lower, to by these medy the Province OF Lowkr-Canaua, > District of Montreal : \ Thomas Porteous, of the City of Montreal, Esqr. one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Dis- trict of Montreal, being duly s\vorn, d('i)oseth and sivith — That on or about the twentieth day of December last, as he was turning out of Notre Dame Street into St. Gabriel Street, in the said City, he si\w a great number of the little Girls from the School kept by the Nuns of the Congrega- tion, entering the house of Doctor Robert Nelson, " \. P. P. in St. Gabriel Street, in tiie same order in which they are conducted by the Nuns to and from church. How many had entered the House before the Deponent saw them, he can- not say, but the column then extended across St. Gabriel Street into St. Jacques Street. The little Girls were all eagerly pressing forward, and as nearly as the Deponent could judge, they were from eight to twelve years of age. The Deponent pointed out this procession to Mr. Henry Mackenzie, who was then standing on the stePs of Henry Griffin's house, next door to Dr. Neilson's. The Deponent's first impression was that they were going to see some surgi- cal operation periormed, but upon further reflection, and knowing that the supporters of Mr. Papineau and his fac- tion, did not hesitate to adopt any means, however improper, to attain their object, the Deponent suspected that these children had been taken to the Doctor's House for the pur- pose of signing the Petitions to the King, Lords and Com- mons of Great-Britain, got up by the Committee appointed at the meeting of Mr. Papineau's party in Quesnel's store on the 18th December last. The Deponent having in conse- quence made inquiry, he is enabled from undoubted autho- rity to say, that he verily and firmly believes that the said little Girls were conducted into Dr. N's house for the ex- press purpose of signing the said Petitions, and that they did actually sign them, as if the Deponent had seen them write their names, and he has further been credibly informed that they were instructed not to sign their christian names in full but only the initial letters thenof, in order that their sex might not thereby be kn«nvn. Dr. Nelson himself, the Deponent was also informed was nut at home during this traijsaction. And the said Deponent further saith that on the I7th day of January inst. happening to be in a store at St. Therese, in the county of Effingham in this District, he overheard four french Canadian boys (the eldest of whom afterwards E ii' *sBSKt ti. - 2» 'jf^.'f* ■ "• tcld the Deponent that he was under twelve years of age) boasting that they had signed a Petition to the King, allud- ing to the before mentioned Petitions to the King, Lnords and Commons, which were then circulating at St. Th^rese for signature. Upon asking the oldest Boy if he could write, he answered " Non Monsieur, mais j'ai fait ma croix, et *' tous les enfants de I'Ecole ont sign^ aussi — II y'en avoit " une trentaine." The Deponent then enquired if he knew what he had signed — " Eh bien ! monsieur," replied he *' je n'en sais rlen, mais j'ai sign6 sur trois feuilles." The other boys fully corroborated this statement — and further the Deponent saith not. (Signed) T. PORTEOUS. Sworn before me, at Montreal, \ this SI St day of Jany. 1828. J (Signed) S. GALE, J. P. District or> Montreal. ^ RicHAUD Salter, of the City of Montreal, Gentleman, being duly sworn, depoaeth and saith — That on or about the Twentieth day of December last, his Son David Salter aged twelve years, a Scholar at Mr. Scanlan's School, in the St. Lawrence Suburb of this City, came home from the said School, highly elated and told him the Deponent that he had signed a Petition which was to be read by the King — Upon inquiry, the Deponent found that his son and a number of other Boys, pupils of Mr. Scanlan, had been enticed by Master Cuvillier, son of Austin Cuvillier, Ksqr., Member of the provincial Parliament, to go with him to the shop of Messrs. Edward R, Fabre & Co., Booksellers, in Notre Dame Street, and there sign the Petitions to the King, Lords and Commons of Great Britain, got up by the Committee appointed at the public meeting anony* mously called and held at Mr. Quenel's Store on the 18th December last. The Deponent very much displeased with hiii son for having done so, went with him to Messrs. Fabre and asked for the Petition for the purpose of striking out his son's name, when he was told by a man in attendance in the Shop, that he perfectly remembered having seen the Deponent's son sign the Petitions, but that he could not shew them to the Deponent as they had been sent to Mr. Sou* ligny's and further the Deponent saith not (Signed) R. SALTER. Sworn before me at Montreal, thej Ilth day of January 18^8. \ (Signed) T. PORTEOUS, J. P. ^V\^i:. .**• in of age) \ng, allud- Lordsand 'h^rese for bid write, croix, et [y'en avoit if he knew [replied he les." The Ind further SOUS. 29 District ori MONTUEAL. J Dayid Salter, aged twelve years, son of Richatd Salter, of the City of Montreal, Gentleman, being duly sworn deposeth and saith — That on or about the twentieth day of December last, he with about twenty of his fellow Scholars from Mr.Scanlan's School , were enticed by Master Cuvillier to go with him to the shop of Messrs. Fabre & Co. in Notre Dame Street, Booksellers, for the purpose of signing a petition which Master Cuvillier told them was to be read by the King. At Messrs. Fabre's shop they were shewn three sheets upon each of which the Deponent and a number of other Boys signed their names without having any knowledge whatever of what they were signing or to what purpose their signatures were to bo applied than that of being read by the King and further Deponent sailh not. (Signed) D. SALTER. Sworn before me at Montreal, this' nth day of January, 1828, after tlie( Deponent had been duly examined as| to the ndture of an oath. (Signed) T. POllTEOUS, J. P. •I eman, being I Twentieth elve years, a iburb of this nd told him I to be read his son and I enticed by nberof the srs. Edward 1 there sign eat Britain, !ing anony- December for having he Petition ras told by ^membered it he could > Mr. Squi LTER. Disthict of Montueal, \ PiioviNCE OF Lower-Canada. J of the City of Montreal, Esquire, one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Distiict, being duly sworn, deposeth and sailh, that on or about the Twentieth day of December last, as Deponent was standing in conversation with in St. Gabriel Street, in front of the house of Henry Griffin, Esquire, he observed a great number of Female Children coming in regular order from St. Jacques Street, in the naid City of Montreal, to the adjoining house, occupied by Dv, Robert Nelson, M. P. P. in said St. Gabriel Street, and that after a few minutes halt at the door,they rushed into the house in number about one hundred and from the age of eight to twelve years — That Deponent soon afterwards ascertained that the said young Girls were the Scholars belonging to the School, kept in the said City by tho Nuns of the Congregation, and \\ho were sent to the said house to sign the Petitions to the King, Lords and Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which I'etitions were recently got up by Mr. Papineau the late Speaker and his friends in tlie House of Assembly in this Province, in opposition to the mea- sures of His Majesty's Government— and the Deponent fur- '•?s 30 ther saiili liiat he also ascertained thai the said Feina1e« did actuully add their names to the said Petitions by writing the Initials only of their christian names, and their surnames in full length. (Signed) Sworn at Montreal this ■* lOtb day January, 1828, before me (Signed) W. ROBERTSON, J. P. a Extract of a Letter from a respectable Schoolmaster in a Country Parish to a Gentleman in Quebec, " 15th January, 1828. "Je nedois pas vousendire plus — vous connoissez mieax que moi ce que le public fait souirrir a notre Gouvemeur, prions pour lui; il <';;t farh'u:: que n'a pas prevu, ii y a un mois a commissioner Monsr. ■ a faire signer les habitans de no- tio Tamisse, surune requite qu'il iui a cnvoye cos jours ci, pour " !e souticu du CiouveriiRmpnt ; car nos Democrales out commence " il y a quinze jours a parcourir les Paroisses de — — — — . et ont " fait sii;ner au moins les trois quarts dfs habitans, leur faisant cn- " teiidre que s'ils ne sis;ncnt pas sur leur requfite qu'ils seront char- *' ges a. p.iyer des fi)rts tnxes, et meme vinndra unjour qu'ils seront *' chasses de lours terrcs ; ils ont meme fait signer des eufaus " qui n'ont que 1'2 a 13 ans. MoNSIEUU, *'Jevous prie d'cxcuser la liberte que je prends a vous ecrire ; mais aussi croypz je vous prie, quo je suis et veux etre tout ma ?io fidele a mou Uoi, et obeissant a scs IVTiiiistres." Commc je vf'oxetre, MoNsii;un, &c. 4'e. &c. From the Old Montreal Gazette, To the HonoraI)lo I'.D. Debaktzcii, President of the Meeting for the CouNTTf OF Richelieu. SII?,--IVot thiiikiiii; that Me ought to disapprove of the public conduct of His Kxccllency the Governor in Chief of this Province, and not havini; attended at any of the meetings which have taken place \vithin the County, with relation to that subject ; we public- ly declare that our nomination as members of your Committee, does not meet our approbation. The necessity of having recourse to a number of absent persons to form your Committee, leads you into ma1e« did writing the rnames in ister in a 28. X que mo! ipourlui; I un inois ms de no- pour S CI, commence — • et ont aisant cn< ■ont char- *ils seront :s eufuus ts ecrire ; ut ma ?ie ;ting for s public rovince, ! taken public- e, does 'se to a >u into ar. Kfenl contndicUoai, ud wovld render tke itetenenti of tiM ni_ ber which you pretend were present at your meeting, nnworthy of belief. We have the honour to be, Yoarreiy hnmble Sertanti, J. F. Tctu, A. Arcbambattlt, '■:.y,. H. LEMoiNKDEMAinoinri T. BftooxuB* St. Hyacinthe, 4lh January, 1828. By a late Montreal Herald, we also notice that VcirAifT Rot dit Lapense% Esq. ef Lachine, declines the honour of his nomina« tion by the Montreal meeting. Our letters from Sorbl, state that Captain Reneau, of that place, refused to publish at the Church door (he late meeting of St. Denis, from a firm conviction that the Cana- dians are much imposed upon, their feelings and passions acted on by false pretences, and groundless fears excited. , .. From the Qcebec Mercury. CoMMUNrcATED. — We the Subscribers do hereby declare, that Mr. Louis Guay, Notary Public of St. Antoine, a few days ago prevailed upon us to sigu an Address in opposition to the measures of the present Government, by representing to us that His ExceN lency the Governor*in-Cbief wished to lay numerous taxes upon us, that he Mas endeavouring to obtain the sole controul of the public money, in order to increase the salaries of his favorites, and that h# withheld all encouragement for improvement of oar Roads and Bridf;es, and the Country in general. Being now satisfied that the above are gross misrepresentationi^ we desire that our signatures may be erased from the Addresft GEORGE STOKAN, JOHN NORTHUP, JOSEPH MULLIKEN, JOHN READ, JAMES RAMSAY. St. Giles, 7th January, 1828. Sir, To the Editor of the Quebec Mercury, A few days ago one M'lvoy of Ghamplain Street, came to the house at Pr^«de-VUle, where we were working at our bu« 3 ft ;li lineit of Joiner, and asked ut to sign some parchments he had in his hand, -which he said were Petitions for the good o{ the Country — we had previously lieard that there was an Address to the Governor, in progress, and thinking this to be the same we signed it — understanding since however that it is one of a very different nature, and we certainly should not have signed, had we been aware of its real purport, we take this manner of disavowing our intention of being identified with those com- plaining through that address of the Government of the Pro- vince, and requesting Mr. M'lvoy to efface our names from the Parchment which at his rec^uest, and from an erroneous impression we were induced to sign. JOHN M. BEAN, r-» ISAAC ROBINSON. Quebec, 19lh Jany. 1828. Sir, To the Editor of the Quebec Mercury. One M'lvoy of Champlain Street, in company with one Reiley, and some others whom I do not know, called at my house last evening, requesting me to sign an address to the Governor, adding that it was h)r the good of the country. He had a scroll of parchment in his hand, to which I signed my name. I have since been informed that the Address 1 so sign* ed was not to the Governor, but abusive of the Government, in consequence of which it is my wish to withdraw my name from the list of Petitioners against it. I have no reasonable cause for placing myself amongst the complainants against the Government. On the contrary, as an Englishman,aepending entirely on my trade and exertions for a livelihood, and in no wise dependent on the Government if my opinion is to go for any thing, it would decidedly be in favor oi the Government of the Province. ROBERT BRINDLE, Black-Smith, Champlain Street. Quebec, lOih January, 1828. Michel Lasante and Alexandre Lasant^, having been induced by sarreptitious means to si^n the petition to the King, in Mr.Ciouet's shop, now declare that they did not then know wha«. they signed, and beg to recall their signatures, having made application to have their names erased from the roll which was refused them. (Signed) MICHEL LASANTE.* ALEXANDRE LASANTE.' 99 nte he had )od of the n Address ethe same s one of a ve signed, manner of hose com" the Pro- tmes from erroneous V, ON. with one lied at my ess to the luntry. He signed my i ISO signvei'nment -Smith, induced by Ir.Ciouet's ley signed, on to have V iNTE.» To His Excellency the Rif^ht Honorable George Earl of Dalhousie, Baron Dalhousie of Dal- housie Castle, Knlj^lit Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower-Canada, Upper- Canada, Nova-Scotia, New-Brunswick, and their several dependencies, Vice-Adrniral of the same, General and Commander of all His Majesty's Forces in the said Provinces of Upper-Canada and Lower Canada, Nova- Scotia, New-Brunswick, and their several de- pendencies, and in the Islands of Newfound- land, Cape Breton, and Bermuda, &c. &c. &c. May it please your Excellency, We the faithful servants and devoted subjects of His Ma< jesty, the Magistrates, Gentlemen, principal persons and other inhabitants of the Parish of Nicolet, having fully con- sidered the late measures of our Legislature, and observing with a sentiment of sincere regret, the erroneous pretensions which the popular Branch thereof has arrogated to itself, and the distressing predicament in which its errors has placed us, and contrasted them with the moderation, and noble conduct of Your Excellency under such critical circumstances, consi- der ourselves imperiously held in duty, to manifest our senti- ments as peaceful and well-disposed subjects of His Majesty, having at heart the general happiness of our country and at- tachpd by the strictest ties to our Government and our Con- stitution, tender to your Excellency the humble, but sincere, tribute of our gratitude, and offer our lively acknowledge- ments of your lionorable firmness in supporting the preroga- tive of the Grown, thereby preserving entire our precious Constitution, which we hold to be the true means of assuring to us Bnd our posterity the enjoyment, as British subject)), without alteration of tb« blessitigs of our juat rights aad Ubero m 34 ties, and of the ineattmable privileges flowing from them. For all these benefits we consider ourselves bound, in all hu- mility, to offer to the Divine Dispensator of events the tri- bute of our praises and thanks, joining with them our fervent prayers that Fie may be graciously pleased to guide the coun- cils of His Majesty and of the Imperial Parliament of Great- Britain, that ihcy may finally decide according to the dic- tates of wisdom and impartial Justice the questions in dispute, and we further pray that Your Excellency may enjoy health and l(M)|rili of days to behold the full and perfect accomplish- ment of the objects of your paternal solicitude, and to enjoy the pleasing satisfaction of having been the means of preserv- ing to all the faithful and devoted Canadian subjects of His Majesty, the blessings of peace and harmony. [Signed by 337 persons.] Nicolet, 14ih January, 1828. ANSWER. Gentlemen, The sentiments expressed in this address from the Magis- trates and inhabitants of the Parish of Nicolet, are so widely different from those which are now circulated as the senti- ments of the Canadian population in general, that 1 might have felt some surprize in the perusal of them, did I not know that they came to mo from a seat of learning, where education is spreading all its happy influence, and where the agents of a factious party have not dared, or have failed, to introduce the gross misrepresentations against government, by which the Canadian peasantry have been deceived and misled in other parts of the Province. I know how to appreciate the feelings of society residing near Nicolet ; it affords me, therefore, peculiar pleasure to receive this address from those who by their personal charac- ter and conduct have not only shewn the example, but have spared no exertion in spreading wide around them the prin- ciples of good subjects and unquestionable loyalty. 35 pm them, in all hti- 9 the tri- ur fervent the coun- of Gieat- ) the dic- n dispute, joy health complish- to enjoy >f preserv- ts of His he Magis" so widely Lhe senti' I 1 might not know education agents of introduce by which misled in ' residing easure to al charac- > but have the prin- When I thank you, Gentlemen, for the expresnion of xuch sentiments in regard to (he administratiun of the lit Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and (jro\ernor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower- Canada, Upper-Canada, Nova -Scotia, New- Brunswick, and their several dependencies, Vice- Admiral of the same, General and Com- mander of all His Majesty's Forces in the said Provinces of Upper-Canada and Lower- Canada, Nova-Scotia, New-Brunswick and their several dependencies, and in the Islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward, Cape Bre- ton and Bermuda, &c. &c. &;c. May it please Your Excellency, We, the subscribers, His Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, Merchants, Freeholders and Inhabitants, re- siding in the Townships of Shipton, Melbourn, King*ey, Durham, and surrounding settlements, nio?t respectfully beg leave to address Your Excellency on the hitc Pi'oroga- tion of the Provincial Parliament. The liberty Me take in this respect arises from the conviction of the necessity that exists of having evei7 loyal subject and community, disavow the late very extraordinary proceedings of the present m f !: i 30 House of Assembly, on their meeting for the despatchof Public Busines.4, lest it might be iinut^ined thut the loyal Inhabitants of the Province should be identified with those who now compose the majority of that bor'8 Administration. The avowed hostility, and the public expression of this indi- vidual's senriments, manifestly unfitted him to become the or- gan of decorous and harmonious intercourse between the co- ordinate branches of the Legislature ; and the dignity of the 40 \*j Crown, and the oatraged fe«lings of the loyal and well ditpoa* ed, demanded and justify Your Excellency's refusal to contirm the election of the Assembly. Your Excellency's energetic decision has most providen- tially furnished the occasion for the display and detection of the real principles, which influence the factious in their resis- tance to Your Excellency's Government : In their violence th.'v have bet rayed the enormity of their unconstitutional pre- tensions, and in their resolutions they have exposed the cha- racter and tendency of the revolutionary propensities by which they are animated. Experience of the past forbids the hope of better feeling in the majority of the Assembly, until the composition of that body shall be improved by the infusion of Ent/Jish principles ; and that desirable chancre will be produced whenever the Bri- tish population of the Colony i? fairly represented in the As* sembly. We ardently hope that the Imperial Government will interpose its authority to impart the right of representa- tion to the English Inhabitants of the Townships, but until that just and necessary measure be taken. His Majesty's faith- ful subjects in this Province, must endure the moriificaiion of seeing the popular Branch of the Legislature made the tool of iiie unhallowed ambition of designingdeiragogues, who under ''le mask of loyalty chetish the deepest hatred of the l£nglish name, and the most active animosity to His Majesty's Govern- ment. We doubt not that Your Excellency's firmness will receive the support of His Majesty's Ministers, and we embrace this opportunity of expressing our conviction that Your Excel- lency, unmoved by clamour and undismayed by violence, will pursue the upright, honorable, and u'>deviating course which nas hitherto distinguished Your Excellency's conduct as tlM Representative of our most gracious and beloved Sovereign. [Signed by 214 pereoiM.] well ditpos* il to coniirm t providen- detection of 1 their lesis- eir violence utional pre- sed the cha- ies by which er feeling in ition of that I principles ; ver the Bri- d in the A8> Gloveriiment ' represent a- H, but until jesty's faith- riification of le the tool of i, who under the l£nglish ity'a Govern- } will receive embrace this Your Excel- iolence, will course which riduct as tlie Sovereign. 4t ANSWER. Castle op St. Lewis, Quebec, 18tb Feby. 18284 Sis, lam directed by His Excellency the Govemor-in-Chief to acknowledge the receipt of the Address of the Inhabitants of the District of St. Francis, transmitted in your letter of the 7th Inst., and I am to convey to you His Excellency's assurance that the sentiments they have expressed in this Adc^iess are in the highest degree gratifying to His Excellency personally, and as it concerns the future hopes and prospects of the popu- lation of the Townships in that part of the Province, with re- gard to the representation. His Excellency will have great pleasut 1 in ^'nsmilting it to His Majesty's Government* I have the honor to be. Sir, Your most obedt. serv^ (Signed,) A. W. COCHRAN. W. Hen AY, Esquire, Sherbrooke. •^ Ki !: I To His Excellency the Right Honorable George Earl of Dalhousie, Baron Dalhousie of Dal- housie Castle, Knitrht Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain-General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower-Canada and Up- per-Canada, Nova-Scotia, New- Brunswick, and their several dependencies, Vice-Admiral of the same,General and Commander-in-Chief of all His Majesty's Forces in the Provinces of Lower-Canada and Upper-Canada, Nova- Scot'i and New-BrunswicK, and their several dependencies, and in the Islands of Newfound- land, Caj;'3 Breton and Bermuda, &c. &c. &c. Mav it Please Yuun Exce^lenct, ^^ We His Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, Inha- bitants of the Townsliips of Loclmber and Biickingham, in Lower-Canaila, bei; leave most respectfully to approach Your Excellency with sentiments of high respect for your exalted rank, of cbtenu for your character, and of unmingled approba- tion of your Government. While with pfratitnde and admiration we view Your Excel- lency'?, exertions and soiicimde to promote the improvement of this l*ru\iiKR and the happiness of the people, it is with deep regret, mingled wiih iiulii/iiati()n,wecontem|)littc the sys- tematic and loniiniied opposition made to all your measures for cff' cting that ciul, by a faction who at once arrogate to themselves the power of Ijogi-jaiiun and the Rights of the Crown. By their machiiuiiions wc iind ours^elves hitherto de- prived of ihcestablihhinfMit of Uogisiry Ofticc;^, so necessary to the security of properly : of an improved division of the rro- vinco into Disiricis ami Couniies, of an equitable share in the jirpresentaiive Branch of Government, and of an equal admi- nibtraiiou of Jubticeand a general system oi Educationt •' $ 43 J George of Dal- 5 of the ^e Bath, 3f in and and Up- unswicK, Admiral in-Chief rovinces Nova- • several w found- &c. &c. >cts, Inha« ingham, in •oacli Your our exalted id approba- We deprecate iheattrmpts of these Individuala, under the ipeciou3 mark of Patriotism, to excite di<^content and distrust of the justiceof His Majesty 9 Government artion^ a portion of the Canadians, — a people, quiet, loyal and moral, and who have already proved their loyalty to the British Uovernmeni on the field of battle; and we sincerely hope ihr-t an effectual check will be put to their false rrpresentations, and that their evil designs will soon recoil upon themselves with merited dis* grace. We applaud Your Excellency for the firmness with which you have opposed their ambitious schemes, and we decidedly approve of all the measures which you have adopted to effect that purpose ; Your Excellency has thus proved yourself wor- thy of your country and merited the t. 'erlasiing gratitude of every loyal British subject in this Province. We beg leave to assure Your Excellency that we shall al- ways be ready, heart and hand, to co-operate with you in maintaining the liights of the Crown, upholding the glory of the British nation, and preserving inviolate the principles of cur excellent constitution, and we pray God tlmt Your Ex- cellency may long be continued among us to accomplish these purposes. Locbaber, II th Feby. 1838. [Signed by 152 persons.] ANSWER. 'our Excel- iiproveinent , it is with uto the sys- ir measures iirrosiite to ghts of the mherto de- jecessary to of the Pro- ihare in the >qual admi- ilion. Sib, Castle of St.Lgwis, Quebec, 18th Fcby. 18£8. I am directed by His Excellency the Governor-in-Chlef to acknowledge the receipt of the Address of the Inhabitants of the Townships of Lnchaber and Buckingham, which accom- panied your letter ofihe ilth Inst. His Excellency requests that you will assure tlie Inhabi- tants of those Townships, that he feels himself highly gratified by their Address, which expresses sentiments towards His F 2 ^r 1; in 44 Majesty *• Go?ernment that afford great satibfuction to Ilia Excellency personally, and fiirntah an additional proof, if any -were wanting, that even in those distant parts of the Pro- vince which are most recently settled, the people do justice to those to whom the Government of the Province has been en- trusted. I have the honor to be, Sir, (Signed,) W. M'Lean, Esquire, Lochaber. Your moat obedt. servt. A. W. COCHRAN. iA ■5M To His Excellency the Right Honorable George Earl of Dalhousie, Baron Dalhousie of Dal- housie Castle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower-Canada, Upper-Canada, Nova-Scotia, New-Brunswick, and their several dependencies, Vice-Admiral of the same, General and Commander of all His Majesty's Forces in the said Provinces of Upper-Canada and Lower-Canada, Nova- Scotia,New-Brunswick and their several depen- dencies, and in the Islands of Newfoundland, prince Edward. Cape Breton and Bermuda, &c. &c. &c. May it riiEAsE Your Excellency, We, His Majesty's faithful subjects, Inhabitants of the Township of Compton, beg leave very respectfully to approach Your Excellency, to express to you our regret, that not only such a want of respect for Your Lordship, but such a total want of regard for the undoubted authority of His Majesty's 45 ition to His proof, if any of ihe Pro- lo justice to las been en- t. CHRAN. le George of Dal- ss of the the Bath, i Chief in r-Canada, Brunswick, 2-Admiral ider of all evinces of a, Nova- raldepen- foundland, Bermuda, (ants of the ' to approach bat not only iuch a total is Majesty's Representative, and the true intriestn of this ProTince, has been shewn by a party acting under the influence of a few fiic> tious men ; and to declare our unquahfied approbation of the firm and temperate measures which Your Excellency has par« sued, in resisting the attempts which have been made to er.- croach on the rights of tlu! Crown,— rights the support of which we consider to be most essentiul to the well being of the Community of which we form a humble part. Residing in a remote part of the Province, and virtually un- represented in the Provincial Puriiament, we have been forced to remain almost silent spectators of what has been passing in public affairs, till a faction has by its violent proceedings and most unjustifiable conduct, developed its views and principles step by step, and till a continued silence on our part might be construed into a participation with them. That the Inhabitants of these Townships have grievances to complain of, and may reasonably hope for redress is undenia> ble : — They have already been brought under the notice of the Assembly of this Province as well as the other Branches of the Legislature. To recapitulate them would be foreign to the subject of this Address, nor have we any other motive in noticing them at present, than to assure Your Excellency that we attribute the wiihholiling of onrjiist and lawful rights to no other cause than the selfish view and narrow minded policy of a few persons who lead the majority of the Lower House, and it is with much regret that we find ourselves compelled to ob- serve that from past experience we cannot look forward with any reasonjible degree of hope fur a more favorable state of things, until His Majesty's (jovernment shall adopt effectual measures for remedying the existing evil. Till such measures shall be adopted, and whenever our support may be necessary in common with His Majesty's loyal subjects in this Province, to carry them into effect, we beg to assure Your Excellency, that all we hjive in our power to aiford may be relied upon in every exigency. We cannot conclude this sincere expression of our feelings on the present occasion, without also expressing our firm con- viction that Your Excellency has always acted from the purest motives, and with a most sincere desire to promote the prospe- rity of the Province, and the welfare of all classes of people committed to your charge, as the Representative of our most gracious Sovereign. Comptoni 1st January 1838. ' [Signed by 90 persona.] I. /• n: ANSWER. Sir, Castle OF St. Lewis, Quebec, 8th Feby. 1828. I am directed by Hid Excellency the Governor-in*Chief, to request that you will convey his thanks to tlie Inhabitants of the Townships of Compton, for the expression of their senti- ments contained in tlieir address which you lately forwarded, and that you will assure them that His Excellency is much gratified in finding; that these luyal and constitutional feelings are so general and so decided in that part of the Province. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedt. servt. (Signed,) A. D. BosTwiCK, Esquire. A. W. COCHRAN. To His Excellency the Right Honorable George Earl of Dalhousie, Baron Dalhousie of Dal- housie Castle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Balh, Cap- tain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower-Canada, Upper- Canada, Nova-Scotia, New-Brunswick, and their several dependencies, Vice Admiral of the same, General and Commander of all His M of people of our noost WIS, Keby. 1828. -in^Chief, to habitants of f iheii'senli- ' forwHiiIed, ricy is much 3nal feelings Vovince. ;hran. e George 3 of Dal- the Most ilh, Cap- if in and I, Upper- ick, and Imiral of of all liis Majesty's Forces in the said Provinces of Up- per-Canada and Lower-Canada, Nova-Scotia, New- Brunswick and their several dependen- cies, and in the Island of Newfoundlana, Prince EdwardjCape Breton and Bermuda, &c.&c.&c May it Please Your Excellency, Wb, the undersigned Inhabitants of the Townships of Leeds, Irchmd, Invernes«s and Seigniory of St. Giles, in the County of Buckingham and Province of I^ower-Canada, beg leave most respectfully to approach Your Excellency, with the assurance of our most dutiful attachment to the paternat Goverinent of our most Gracious Sovereign, and to ofter the hu'uble testimony of our esteem for the public and private character of Your Excellency, who has so long and ably presided over this part of His Majesty's Dominions. We have beheld with gratitude, the just measures of Your Excellency in the Administration of the Government of this Province, and the constant endeavours of Your Excellency to impress on the Lcgi<«ljiture the necessity of enactments for the better security of property by the establishment of Offices of Registry of Titles, for the more fair and equal re- presentation of the people by the subdivision of Counties, for the advancement of learning and for improving the v wmu- nications and resources of the country. While we anticipated the happy issue of these and other measures suggested by the wisdom of Your Excellency, we have seen with Ihe deepest regret the conduct of the late House of Assembly, in endeavouring to subvert the blessings of our Constitution, by so repeatedly frustrating the liberal views of Your Excellency, for the improvement of the In- stitutions and good Government of the Province, and by assuming rights not vested in them, attempting to set aside the authority of our beloved and most Gracious Sovereign and the Imperial Parliament,over this portion of the British Empire. We regret this the more, as we feel assured had the bene- volent wishes of Your Excellency been followed, and the right of representation extended unfettered to the Townships of the Province, a series of happy results would have been the consequence. f Deeply as we deplore these totU>mpts of the lute Assembly, We have to felicitate ourselves and the country, on the ener- gy and wisdom Your Excellency has shewn in supporting thejust Prerogative of the Crown, by recently rejecting, u.h Speaker of the present House of Assembly, a person whose public conduct rendered him unfit for that high office, and we pledge our lives and properti 'S to defend those rights. Your Excellency lias so ably and constitutionally supported. That Your Excellency may be long continued to preside over us, to avert those evils which the disappointed and mis ■ guided wish to produce, and to promote the best interests and happiness of this extensive country, so much indebted to the persevering efforts of Your Excellency, is the ardent prayer of Your Excellency's most grateful and obliged ser- vants. Township of Leeds, January 8th 1828. [Signed by 230 Persons.] ti ANSWER. Castle of St. Lewis, Quebec, 27th Feby. 1828. Sir, — I am directed by His Excellency the Governor in Chief, to acknowledge the receipt of the Address of the In- habitants of the Townships of Leeds, Inverness and Ireland, and of the Seigniory of St. Giles, which accompanied your letter of 4th instant, and I am to request that you will assure them, that His Excellency feels much gratified by their ap- probation of the conduct of Government during the period of his administration, and that he will not relax in his anx- ious endeavours to remove differences of opinion, and to pro- mote the important interests of the 1 ownships in Lower- Canada. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedt. servt. (Signed) A. W. COCHRAN. H. M. Blaicklock. Esqr. Assembly, n the ener- suppurting jecting, u* 'son whose office^ and lose rights, supported, to preside d and mis • St interests h indebted the ardent )liged ser- )y. 1828. lovernor in of the In- nd Ireland, anied your will assure y their ap- the period in his anx- and to pro- in Lower- HRAN. 40 To liis Exc BLLENCY, George Earl of Dal- HousiE, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Ho- norable Military Order of the Bath, Captain- General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canadaf Neva Scotia and New Brunswick, and their several dependencies, Vice Admi- ral of the same, General and Commander in Chief of all His Majesty's Forces in the Pro- vinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada, Nova Scotia and New BrunswicK, and their several dependencies : — May it please your Excellency, We, the undersigned, inhabitants of the County of Glcn- gary, Upper Canadr,, approach your Excellency with the sentiments of respect due to your exalted station, the vir- tues that adorn your private character, and the general principles of your public administration and conduct. We have lately observed, with much regret, the violent measures of a party in the sister Province ; and without pretending to give any judgement on the political questions at issue, or wishing to obtrude ourselves on arrangements beyond our legitimate sphere, we cannot but regard it our duty, as peaceable subjects, to reprobate the proceedings to which we have now alluded — as discreditable to the ac- tors if not to their cause, undutiful towards our Gracious Sovereign and his Representative, and hostile to the best interests and improvement of these Colonies. We fully believe, at the same time, that our population of French origin in general, as well as the rest of our fellow subjects in these lands, are most devoted in their loyalty and attachment to the British Government ; that the same spirit which they formerly, and with so much honor, dis- G ^> \ If t I Hi plovnl ill del'encc of tlicir country niid on the firhl of haltle, t» far from being on the wane among the sont) uf I'anudn ; and that the partial appearances of an opposite description, which have recently occurred, are to be traced to the sinis- ter influence of a few individuals and their interested parti- Hans, WHO have artfully laboured, under the specious mask of patriotism and loud professions of public zeal, to advance their own schemes of ambition and selfish policy ; and have thus imposed on the unsuspecting confidence of'^a quiet peo- ple, anci excited their distrust of the measures of the admi- nistration by imaginary evil6 and alarms. Wc acknowledge, did we sec the rights of the subject in- vaded, that we would be among the foremost, but without forgetting our due homage and allegiance, to present our respectful memorial for redress at the foot of the Throne : But where, instead of suffering from the encroachments of power, we behold our beloved Monarch himself in the character of the Friend and the Father of his people, view- ing their prosperity and happiness as the true greatness of his empire and lustre of his Crown, and commanding by his mild reign yet magnanimous conduct, the admiration and the applause even of foreign, and far-distant rations ; when we consider our privileges and moderate public burdens, the fostering care of our Government and the Mother Country, and the noble improvements, from their own re- sources, which they are now carrying on in these Provinces ; — we must indeed have been unworthy of these blessings, and traitors to the character of subjects which we bear, did we not deem ourselves bound, by the most sacred calls of duty and of gratitude, to love our King, to honor his name and Representative, and to cherish, in the best feel- ings of the Iieart, our connexion with Britain, long the most favoured of Kingdoms, ever hiallowed to us by the re- posing ashes of our kindred and forefathers, and at this day the glory of the whole earth. ^ ,^. . , ....... We finally offer tp your Excellency, the unanimous ex- pressions of our duty, and our most cordial testimony to the noble integrity of your conduct, in your office of Royal ficliiti>li p<»>.scs« sions in Nortli Ainericu: we sincerely regard the ap|K>int- racut ainoiii; the benefactions of our Sovrreiirn ; we trnit that you will long preside over us, and arc confident it will be with the same unwearied zeal for the public gu4Ml, and the same unsullied honor, as in the period that is past ; and permit us, under these impressions to state our unhesi- tating assurance, that, l)y continuance in the like discharge of the high functions of your authority, by the recollections of M'hat is due to the Royal Personage re|)resented, and to the just clai:ns and welfare of the people ruled, — your Ex- cellency \\ ill obtain, not only from us, but also from every man in the»«^ Provinces, that feels with the heart, or that cherishes the i^>yalty of a Briton, the willing tribute of af- fection and esteem : that your name among a people true to their country and to their King, will be held in grateful remembrance in Canada ; and that your retirement will be followed with our best wishes and our prayers, for your happiness and noblest honors in your native land. [Signed by 1200.] Glengary, 10th December, 1827. To tb"'' His Excellency was pleased to make th Mowing reply: — Castle of St. Lewis, 22d December, 1827. Sir, This Address, M'hich you present to me, from the Inha- bitants of the County of Glengary, in Upper Canada, speaks powerfully the loyal sentiments of Highlanders alive, in an equal degree, to the interestsof their adopted country, and to the honor and support of the Crown. I " 7 ■ 52 I am hiirhly gratified by their eJcpresi^ion of their appro- bation of ray ov^ conduct, and request you to assure them that entertaining with them the same opinion of the uu questionable loyalty of the Cauadian population, I view tlje ?econt events L nothing more than the violence of a few individuals, who have so far succeeded in misleading a well disposed pWle. I f«el confident, that the good sense of that same people will ulUmately see and correct this error. (Signed) To the ftevd. Archibald Connbll,) Martin Town, Upper Canada. $ DALHOUSIE. T An ToHi& Excellency the Right Honorable George Earlof 13-ihousie, Baron Dalhousie of Dal- housie Castle, Knight Grand Cross of thy Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower Canada, Upper Canada, Neva Scotia^ New Brunswick, and their several dependencies, Vice Admiral of the same, General and Commander in Chief of all His Majesty's Forces in the same, and in the Island of Newfoundland, Prince Ed- ward, Bermuda, &c. &c. &c. Mat it please Youb Excellency, The dreary Forests which .mpede our free, frequent and necessary intercourse with the capital of this Province, are the only cause why our humble, though sincere tribute of praise, has not long before this time reached your Excellency. Tlie extent of the Coastsof the District of Gasp^, the im- possibility of travelling at this season with facility and dispatch, for want of sufficient roads and bridges : the schooners being now on the eve of sailing for Quebec ; and our ardent desire that this should reach your Excellency without further delay, prevent this modest instrument from travelling, to receive thousands of willing signatures. So persuaded and convinced are we, of your Excellency's benign and paternal disposition towards our District, that we mus' fail in the attempt, were we to endeavour to ex- press the numerous causes for our unfeigned gratitude to- wards your Excellency. Since your Excellency has been invested with the high trust, and has exercised the great and weighty duties of Go- vernor in Chief of the British North American Colonies, your Excellency has not ceased to devise all possible means iQr the improvement, increase and benefit oi' the District of Gasp<. H 50 i m H ■ We sincerely grieve that your Excellency has been in any measure thwarted in your good and wise designs and inten- tions towards this District ; and earnestly hope, we shall be the happy, the loyal people, who will long have your Excellency for their Governor in Chief j the worthy and able Representative of their Gracious Sovereign : and that your Excellency will ultimately succeed in effecting, what will make the District of Gasp^, all that bountiful nature has designed it to be. Then shall it be enabled to impart its own weight, and rightful consequence in Provincial con- cerns : and will for ever cherish, esteem and extol the memory and name of the noble source of its happiness ! We have the honor to be. May it please your Excellency, Your Excellency's Most faithful and devoted Servants. »n y the false er parts of 1 51 Assure them further, that 1 am still most anxious to draw the attention of His Majesty's Government tovards the Dis> trict of Gasp^ and Bay Chaleurs, where the industrious character of the people offers the best return that can bo derived from the protection and encouragement which Government shall afford to that country. I have the honor. Sir, to be, : Your's faithfully, (Signed) DALHOUSIE. To Mr. Justice Thompson, Judge in the Inferior District of Gasp^.